OpenAI says the agentic side of ChatGPT has passed 10 million weekly users, a mark it reached less than two weeks after the debut of ChatGPT Work, its attempt to turn the chatbot into a tool that finishes a job rather than just describes one.
The figure, first reported by Bloomberg, spans the two products OpenAI now brands as agents: Codex, its coding assistant, and ChatGPT Work, the newer system that carries out multi-step tasks across a person’s apps and files.
What the number counts is worth pinning down, because the headline invites a generous reading. It refers to weekly active users of the two agentic products combined, not enterprise seats, paying customers, or the number of agents actually run.
It is also a company estimate rather than an audited metric, and OpenAI’s usage claims have drawn scepticism before, including over the self-reported figures behind its internal adoption research.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!Even allowing for that, the curve is steep. Codex passed 5 million weekly users at the end of May, reached 6 million on 12 July and roughly 8 million by the middle of the month, according to counts OpenAI executives posted as each threshold fell.
